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  <title>MP urges local residents to sign up in support of the rural economy</title>
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  <description>PLANS ANNOUNCED by the Labour government in this weeks’ Budget to cap Agricultural Property Relief risk the break-up of family farms here in Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale and across the rest of the UK.That’s the view of local MP David Mundell as rural bodies including the National Farmers…</description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>MP calls for fuel duty freeze to be continued at Budget</title>
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  <description>FUEL DUTY must remain frozen at the Autumn budget, to help keep costs down for local families and businesses.That’s the view of local Member of Parliament David Mundell, who has joined more than 70 other MPs in writing to the Chancellor to urge her to consider the impact of a rise in fuel duty on…</description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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  <title>New football training facility a winner, says MP</title>
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  <description>THERE were smiles all round at the home of rural football club Symington Tinto this week.

Special training sessions, matches, a buffet reception and ribbon-cutting ceremony were part of official opening celebrations for showpiece new 3G floodlit pitches.

A game-changing £400,000 award from the UK…</description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Belties provide ‘beacon of comfort’ on memorial quilt</title>
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  <description>ONE OF the most iconic images of Dumfries and Galloway is catching the eye of parliamentarians and visitors at the heart of Westminster.

Two Belted Galloway cattle, amidst the region’s rolling hills and thistles, is on a six by six inch square patch of fabric created by Mouswald-based craft…</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Cutting into a new era at world’s oldest post office</title>
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  <description>ALL EYES were on the world’s oldest Post Office this week when a ribbon-cutting was staged to formally welcome new proprietors to the Upper Nithsdale attraction.

Dumfriesshire MP David Mundell and his son Oliver, constituency MSP, were invited to officiate at the ceremony, also attended by a…</description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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  <title>MP welcomes bridge repair breakthrough</title>
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  <description>Dumfriesshire MP David Mundell has welcomed the conditional decision by Crown Estate Scotland to repair and reopen the closed Gallaberry Bridge, near Lockerbie for pedestrian use.

The news was confirmed at a virtual meeting including the landowner’s director of property Oster Milambo, Mr Mundell…</description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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  <title>Forces’ charity stalwart at Downing Street reception</title>
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  <description>A STALWART of a forces’ charity in the Scottish Borders was amongst guests at a special reception at 10 Downing Street last week.

After a rewarding RAF career, Clive Hamilton from Peebles, has spent almost 20 years as a caseworker with the Soldiers’ Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families’ Association (…</description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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  <title>MP and MSP welcome securing of historic Post Office future</title>
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  <description>LOCAL constituency MP and MSP David and Oliver Mundell have warmly welcomed news the future of Sanquhar Post Office has been secured.

They have received confirmation that the branch, acknowledged as the longest running working post office in the world, has been taken over following the retirement…</description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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  <title>Advice service expansion backed by MP and MSP</title>
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  <description>AN AGENCY providing valuable guidance to families and individuals facing cost-of-living challenges is urgently seeking more volunteers.

Demand for independent advice from Dumfries and Galloway Citizens Advice Service (DAGCAS) has reached record levels during the current global downturn.

The…</description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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  <title>Welcome for new protections on free access to cash</title>
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  <description>NEW PLANS set out by the UK Government will help ensure that people and businesses are no more than three miles away from the ability to withdraw or deposit cash.

The financial services watchdog will be given the power to fine banks and building societies which fail to maintain standards on…</description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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